You Are the Enemy
Update, May 21, 2003
http://www.rense.com/general37/wrong.htm
(Reprinted from the Boston Daily News)
> A bungled tip about a drug dealer's cache led
> police to kick down the door and toss a stun
> grenade into the apartment of a woman with a
> heart condition; she died of a heart attack
> within an hour, police said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/
A10736-2003May19.html
> A scientist identified as "a person of
> interest" in the investigation of the deadly
> anthrax attacks was slightly injured in a
> traffic incident involving a federal agent
>who was following him.
These two incidents have little in common at first
glance; however, both serve to illustrate the growing
threat police pose to us, as average citizens.
In the first, police executed the kind of violent
entrance so beloved of TV cop shows, which included
shouting at the tops of their lungs and throwing a hand
grenade through the door-- the wrong door, as it turned
out. In doing so, they literally scared an innocent
woman to death. In the second incident, a suspect in the
anthrax attack on the U.S. Capitol was hit in Washington
City by a truck driven by an FBI agent. The Secret
Police-man drove away, leaving the scene of an accident,
and the citizen he hit was ... given a ticket by the
beloved Trantor constabulary. That'll show him.
Violent, so-called dynamic entries by the police weren't
always commonplace, as they are now. When I was a child,
they rarely happened, although I do remember reading in
books about how John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde were
shot down in FBI ambushes. But with the advent of the
War On Drugs, kicking in doors became standard
procedure. Originally, they were supposedly made
necessary by the tendency of drug suspects to flush
evidence down the toilet, and their supposed propensity
to grab guns and shoot the official intruders. Now,
violence is used in many situations which used to call
only for a knock on the door. I won't go into the
insanity of the War On Drugs here, except to point out
that it has done for crime and addiction exactly what
Prohibition did in the first half of the last century,
besides giving us more prison inmates per capita than
any other country on the face of the earth.
The second incident is interesting because it now appears
that FBI agents consider themselves above the law:
> According to Clawson, Hatfill and his
> girlfriend were driving to the Georgetown
> section of Washington while being followed by
> several vehicles. A green sport utility vehicle
> was following especially closely, Clawson said.
>
> Shortly before 4:30 p.m., Hatfill's car pulled
> into a parking spot on the street and Hatfill
> got out with a camera to take photos of those
> trailing him. Hatfill told officers the driver
> of the green SUV "had been recording his
> movements all day when he decided to take a
> picture back," according to the police report.
>
> The driver of the green SUV then drove off,
> striking Hatfill, the reports said.
According to the news story, the FBI later confirmed
that the incident happened. The FBI agent committed a
crime by leaving the scene of the accident, a crime that
would likely get a citizen subjected to the standard
police treatment of being forced to the ground while
being handcuffed. But, instead, the agent was not
charged, and to complete the irony his victim was given
a ticket by the Washington City police, for "walking to
create a hazard."
In this case, the Secret Police don't have the excuse
that they were given wrong information. True, the
victim is a suspect in a murder case. But, and this is
important, he has not been charged, and therefore has
the same rights under the "law" as you and me. Which
means we all have something to worry about if we come
in contact with agents from the Ministry of Love.
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David T. Wright's original article "You Are the Enemy"
may be found at:
www.thornwalker.com/ditch/wright_you_enemy.htm.
Updates are posted as events come to Mr. Wright's
attention.
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